从第四段二、三句话 (By the early 1860s these wildcatters were drilling for “black gold” all over western Pennsylvania. The boom rivaled the California gold rush of 1848 in its excitement and Wild West atmosphere.)可知:作者提到加利福尼亚淘金热,目的是说明石油勘探者们在19世纪60年代那种寻找“...
Why did the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek happen? Why was the Treaty of Paris important to Canada? Why did the Treaty of Paris cause debate among Americans? Why is the Treaty of Karlowitz significant? Why did the United States sign the Treaty of Greenville?
Why is Catherine the Great important? Why is the Arctic Ocean important to the United States? Why was the Northwest Territory important? Why is the Gold Rush important to California? Why was the Northwest Passage important? Why was Robert R. Livingston important during the Louisiana Purchase? Wh...
in the years following this financial crisis, with the total amount of American jobs created by startups in 2018 being a hair over 3.1 million. Additionally, the knowledge that a significant portion of startups are outside the US provides one possible hypothesis as to why we haven’t ...
America’s first confirmed wrongful arrest by facial recognition technology happened in January 2020. Robert Williams, a Black man, was arrested in his driveway just outside Detroit, with his wife and young daughter watching. He spent the night in jail.
Gold rushes helped spur a huge immigration that often led to permanent settlement of new regions and define a significant part of the culture of the Australian and North American frontiers.As well,at a time when the world's money supply was based on gold,the newly-mined gold provided ...
as The Geary Act and in 1902 it was made permanent; requiring that Chinese immigrants carry with them there certificate of residence.The hostility against Chinese immigrants had been going on for decades prior to the Exclusion Act, going as far back as the end of the California Gold Rush. Wh...
once old enough. The rise of Chinese anchor babies appears to have a more direct benefit to the U.S economy. New York and California seem to be the motherland of birth tourism. According to the IIE (Institute for International Education), in 2011-12 school years, $22 billon was funded ...
Whether a person finds the gayborhood significant—why it matters to them—is not a function of its statistical properties. A gayborhood is a collection of sentient people. To understand what it means, we need to ask people why they are drawn to it. 4.2 Why Do You Live in the Gaybor...
Food security is a critical part of the Sustainable Development Goals and government policies in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The expression “food security” was introduced in 1974 following famines in the Sahel and Darfur (Gerlach,2015), and was initially focused on the production and availability...